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Table 2 Tuning of the search engine regarding the traditional technical survey task.

From: Development and tuning of an original search engine for patent libraries in medicinal chemistry

Strategy

Tuning

P0

MAP

Impact of the description field

Description

15.87%

1.49%

 

No description

19.51%

1.48%

Impact of the metadata field

No metadata

30.92%

1.74%

 

Metadata on TAC

30.30%

1.60%

 

Metadata on TACD

19.51%

1.48%

Impact of the weighting model

PL2

19.51%

1.48%

 

BM25

20.05%

1.59%

Impact of the co-citation network

Without re-ranking

20.05%

1.59%

 

With re-ranking

21.24%

1.60%

Impact of the use of IPC codes

No IPC codes

21.24%

1.60%

 

IPC codes

23.28%

1.62%

  1. Results in bold are the most effective and are therefore selected to perform further experiments. P0 indicates the top-precision and MAP represents the mean average precision.